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TO THOSE 
DUAL FATHERS AND DUAL MOTHERS 

THE IMMEDIATE, 

To Whom I am Indebted for an Unabridged Inheritance 

and an Increased Endowment of Christian Moral 

Character and True Intelligence Through the 

Devoted Love, Sacrifice and Abnegation 

of Their Consecrated Lives, and 

THE ULTIMATE 

That Ideal Father of Spiritual and Universal Love and Wisdom, 

And that Good, True and Patient Mother, the Earth, 

In Whom, by Whom and Through Whom 

I Have Lived and Had My Being 

In Every Real Sense 

These Verses are 
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INTRODUCTORY. 

The writing of this booklet has been a labor of love and its 
publication a matter of conscience. Three years or more was 
devoted to the studies leading to its production and it is the 
writer's purpose to dedicate it, disinterestedly, to the object 
for which it was written, that of aiding in the establishment of 
God's Kingdom among men and women by awakening a desire 
for a better understanding of their inseparable relationships 
with one another and with God through all the physical, vital, 
mental and governmental functions of which they form an 
intelligent, unifying religious worship is the only possible 
regulating medium. Such a religion would of necessity be 
democratic. 

To this end, he has published and will distribute the present 
edition of one thousand copies at his own expense, but he 
hopes to receive co-operation and assistance, in the further 
extension of this work, from those of his readers with whom 
his views and expressions meet approval. 

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The writer aims to initiate a broad, conscious movement 
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sect or creed in religion or politics, may subscribe. To this 
end he has sought for a definition for religion and of American- 
ism, of Christianity and of every related thought, that will 
unite them all under the folds of a common sacred banner, that 
of the Brotherhood of Man and the Principles of Democracy, 
as expressed and instituted in our nation. 

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funds derived from this source for his personal benefit, but to 
employ them, to the best of his ability, for the purpose indi- 
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Christ teachings of all religions and of natural law and science 
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whole is concerned, the writer is opposed to any secrecy as he 
has a supreme faith in God and in Christ and confidence in the 
essential perfection in love and intelligence of God's highest 
creation on earth, man, if these qualities be effectively ap- 
pealed to. 

On one subject, the writer desires to express himself 
clearly so as to not be misunderstood. He is not of those who 
are opposed to military instruction, training and reasonable 
preparation, if these be undertaken with no spirit of aggress- 
iveness or unwise and unseemgly haste and fear. He has seen 
seven years' service in the army and knows the value of good 
order and discipline to the individual in giving balance, self- 
control and character. But he is opposed to any hysterical 
stampeding in one direction or another. Let us get a good 
perspective of ourselves. Let us translate our aims and objects 
from that of dollars and cents and commercial profit and loss. 
Let us hallow and consecrate them to the good of all humanity 
and not of ourselves and we shall once and forever cut the 
fangs of the demon of militarism. 

Christ, in every perfect or relatively perfect manifestation 
of Himself of which we have cognizance, was armed fully with 
power for good but was negative for evil. Let us arm our- 
selves in this spirit and cleanse ourselves internally of the 
spirit of evil, which is yet within us, and we shall not fear to 
assume every responsibility that may arise. 

Helpful suggestions and criticisms are fully invited and 
will be given careful consideration. So far as may be, all 
communications directed in this spirit will be answered, but, 
for the present, this will be possible only to a limited degree. 
Later it may be that some medium of communication will be 
granted that will enable us to answer all such in the spirit of 
mutual helpfulness. None others will be answered. 

Before closing this "Introductory," the writer wishes to 
say that he takes no merit to himself in any connection what- 
soever with this work. He has no ax to grind and no selfish 
ambition to pander to. He and his family are, for the present, 
rationally provided for, and, for the rest, believing that wealth 
and power in excess of understanding and capacity to wisely 
use them to be curses and not blessings to their holders, he is 
content to let the future to the care and judgment of God. 

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FOREWORD. 

Several years ago, the writer undertook, for his own satis- 
faction, to write an analysis and explanation of some of life's 
enigmas from the view point of a practical man of affairs. 
Since young boyhood, he had been compelled to settle his own 
questions and had acquired that quality of ready judgment 
and decision that distinguish such men, definite and largely 
sub-conscious weighing and balancing of everyday problems 
from the standpoint of utility. 

Had he then known, as he has since learned, that life is a 
continuous chain of causes and sequences, and that to find an 
answer to any single question pertaining to it necessarily 
involved the explanation of life itself and its pursuit from 
sequence to sequence back to its source in a primal cause, the 
magnitude of the subject and his own apparent inadequacy 
to approach it, would possibly have overcome him at the out- 
set. In which case, he would never have known another truth 
of inestimable comfort and joy to all who have discovered it, 
that anyone, being as all of us are of the very essence of life 
and especially endowed with faculties for its interpretation, 
not only qualified but under the precise obligation to employ 
these faculties for this definite purpose, and to put ourselves 
into full harmony and correspondence with it. 

The writer was fortunate in inheriting from his parents 
that greatest of gifts, a strong moral character based on the 
finest religious and spiritual instruction and example; but the 
beliefs and motives so derived, must have come, very early, 
intc conflict with the facts and experiences obtained from 
other educational and practical sources, so that they were 
submerged into sub-consciousness, where they remained 
dormant until finally reawakened (and I hope broadened and 
vitalized) into effective command, as the result of this appar- 
ently casual and inconsequential (but in realty, the writer is 
now fully convinced, effectual and altogether sequential) 
attempt to satisfy his vanity and idle curiosity. 

Had he suspected that he was about to open a portal in his 
personality which he would never again be able to close ; 
through which an influence, a spirit, so all-powerful and 
compelling would immediately gain entrance as to completely 
change his whole nature ; a task-master that would lead him 
to labors so arduous that his weak, human efforts, previously 
undertaken under the compulsion of circumstances, would 
seem small and pitiable in comparison; perhaps, again, he 
would have hesitated and permitted a weak and grovelling 



II. 

lower nature to continue to bind him in fetters, as it has 
indeed since sought, ineffectually, to do, time and again. 

The writer will endeavor in this "Foreword", briefly as 
possible, to outline his matured impressions, and I may say, 
convictions, of the meaning of the Philosophy of Life that he 
has been permitted to develope and somewhat also of the 
processes leading to its production. 

At first, his interest was directed toward the explanation 
of the historical significance of the various moral, religious 
and social codes, but he very soon reached the end of his 
capacity to follow these to any logical termination ; explana- 
tions to seemingly simple questions evaded him continually, 
and, had he followed his own inclinations, he would have 
have given up to despair ; but already the spirit had made him 
captive and would not release him ; the finding of truth had 
assumed an importance that overshadowed every interest, — 
not to the extent of allowing him to neglect other duties and 
obligations, for his primary lesson had taught him that neglect 
of these would utterly unfit and incapacitate him for any 
progress, — but pleasures and pastimes, which had previously 
occupied a predominent interest, now assumed an altogether 
different status, that of servants to his aim, in keeping the 
body and mind healthy, giving them reasonable rest and relief, 
instead of being, as they formerly were, masters ; and the 
same was true of money ; it was only good insofar as it minis- 
tered, directly or indirectly, to the attainment of this one 
purpose. 

But so long as the writer sought to depend upon himself, 
on his personal knowledge and experience, which he had 
heretofore depended upon habitually in dealing with everyday 
questions of utility, so long was he baffled. Until this time, 
he had placed no reliance upon anyone or anything but him- 
self. It was inevitable that now, however, face to face with 
a question of supreme interest, toward the settlement of which 
every true impulse of his being was enlisted, he should set up 
a process altogether distinct and different ; this may be likened 
to a process of waiting, of extension, of longing, of surrender. 

It was at this time, when he had put himself in a perfectly 
receptive state, that the key was given him that eventually led 
him up to and through the gates of truth. It came in a most 
prosaic way, so that for a time he did not know that his word- 
less prayers had been heard and answered. One evening his 
little daughter asked him to help her to arrange some rhymes 
for certain words in her lessons for the next day, and, although 
he had never attempted anything of the kind before, he under- 
took to do so and, almost without effort, he found himself 
arranging rhymes and couplets into a finished jingle that 



III. 

seemed sufficiently amusing at the time. So much so, that the 
following day he found himself forming another little descrip- 
tive poem about "The school where we go, I would have you 
all know, Is the best that ever was seen, etc." and following 
this several more, not without point and merit, but not being 
dedicated to the purpose for which the writer believes poesy 
is intended, that of the soul, they are not worth repeating 
here. 

Naturally such an instrument could not long remain unrec- 
ognized, and very shortly it was at work again, this time 
bringing order out of the chaos of the writer's ideas and to 
this service he has ever since dedicated it; nor could he ima- 
gine himself again debasing it to lesser uses. 

From the above, it will be seen, that the writer makes no 
claim to any wisdom or originality personal to himself, but he 
feels sure that he has, to say the least, been granted insight 
adequate for his own necessities, and just as his individuality 
is a product of the processes of creation in this age, so the 
Philosophy of Life, that he has found sufficient for his needs, 
should serve a like purpose for others, and, in view of the 
conditions surrounding its attainment, it would amount to 
criminal negligence if he failed to offer it to others. 

The original aim was to find truth applicable to individual 
needs and therefore much that he has written is directed 
towards the study of processes affecting individual life and 
development. But it was inevitable that his investigations 
and studies should have led him to recognize that the individ- 
ual is and must be subordinate to his environment. God, 
through nature, deals with individuals only in this relation- 
ship. Animals are ailtogether dependent creatures of their 
environment without any conscious realization of the direct 
creative role which they perform within it and human beings 
are purely animal until this realization is developed into 
consciousness. A subconscious realization of this takes place, 
however, in the young at a very early age, as a heritage from 
what might with propriety he termed this sub-christian era, 
and this early sub-consciousness is gradually developed, under 
the stress of circumstances, into a perfunctory obedience to the 
implications which necessarily accompany it, that of respon- 
sibility for the conditions under which they live. But so long 
as this responsibility is kept submerged in subconsciousness, 
so long is the human being imperfect, self-willed and resist- 
ent, seeking execuses for nullifying and disobeying his best 
impulses. Social laws have their genesis in this subconscius- 
ness. Moral law has its genesis in the fully awakened, alert 
consciousness. The former seeks to find freedom and liberty 
from this responsibility in the largest measure that circum- 



IV. 

stances will permit. The latter seeks for freedom and liberty 
within this responsibility, by codifying its enactments in 
harmony with responsibilities to the fullest extent. Here we 
have two diametrically opposed propositions, which will 
account for the anarchaic mass of legal enactment and pro- 
cedure with which we are trying to misgovern ourselves. 
Moral law is simple and direct. Social law is indirect, com- 
plicated, tangled and inefficient. 

The allegory of Adam and Eve contains the essence of this 
truth as does all biblical moral causes and sequences, following 
one another in logical order from Adam to Abraham, Abraham 
to Moses, Moses to Eiljah and from Elijah to Jesus, in whom 
The Christ found complete human expression; the concrete 
personification of moral law and a regnant spiritual unit 
governing and guiding human progress in the same immuta- 
ble way that physical and chemical laws govern their spheres 
of action, in a perfection of harmony with the Divine Will or 
Ideal, all of which may be expressed perfectly in the single 
word consciousness or reactivity. 

But how are we aware of this Divine Will or Ideal? 
Surely we know it by the factor by which we distinguish the 
living from the dead. That factor which is the very Holy 
Spirit of God, God's increasing (or evolutionary) desire that 
His creation shall know Him in spirit and in truth as their 
Heavenly Father who loves them and who desires them to 
adjust themselves in harmonious sympathy with Him and 
with one another. This can only be fully attained by those 
religious observances which awaken and bring into our lives 
this state, condition and relationship to the fullest extent; 
that of song, prayer, worship and communion and the intel- 
ligent study of God's word and of His handiwork, all con- 
sciously directed to the production of effective results in the 
life which God has given us. 

Now what is the distinctive guiding factor in purely animal 
consciousness? Isn't it love, instinctive but nevertheless 
love, upon which depends self-preservation, in its external 
sense ; that guides the lamp of life up the long gradient from 
the protozoa to the human form, in one direction, and from 
the protophyte to the highest corresponding organic develop- 
ment in vegetation, in another? 

Again isn't love the distinctive guiding factor in human 
consciousness? Love on the brink of consummation and full 
fruitage, which by reason of direct contact with its essence, 
in ever so slight a degree, acquires the power of self-expres- 
sion and definition, thereby becoming an intelligent person- 
ality, and which is potentially capable of perfection, when 
intelligence and love, having become completely harmonious 



and reactive, produce true or ideal intellectuality. These 
three stages are marked by three conditions of reactivity. In 
the animal by sensation ; in the human by aspiration ; and in 
the finished form by inspiration, in which we see God face to 
face, and knowing His will, endeavor without ceasing to obey 
it and to throw off the fetters that yet bind us to error, sin and 
evil. 

Are we not fully aware that in Jesus this will, this ideal, this 
Christ condition was fully and perfectly expressed? That, 
notwithstanding His sublime power to resist and destroy, the 
glad and willing self-surrender to pain, suffering and death 
was necessary to show mankind the nature of love divine and 
teach us the road to God? What voice do we listen to when 
we hear it said that Christianity is an impractical idealism? 
That it has no place in practical affairs? True it is, I grant 
you, that Christianity, as professed and practised in its auto- 
cratic and sectarian forms has thus far missed the mark. But 
these, it should be remembered, are formative, preparative 
states, fitting us — gradually but certainly — to finally overcome 
and throw off the powers of darkness, not alone as individuals 
and churches, but as nations and races, to the establishment 
of God's Kingdom on earth. The teachings of Christ are at 
every point harmonious with the facts of biology and biologi- 
cal evolution, and through the study of these, the sciences of 
life, of God's handiwork, the direction and true purpose of 
Christianity will be clarified and better understood. But this 
study should be undertaken with reverence and consecration. 

Another parallel will give a simple explanation of the 
states and conditions of existence and of being. In the ele- 
mentary and mineral states, God gradually built up the foun- 
dation structure of the universe, perfectly subject to divine 
law and order, and found it good. In the organic kingdoms he 
begets sensate beings to whom he acts as tutor or teacher, 
instructing, correcting, winnowing, grading and guiding these 
creatures of his making; arrived at the human state of being, 
he admits us to apprenticeship in which we are honored with a 
limited freedom as His assistants, but still incapacitated for 
assuming full control. Here the teacher has become converted 
into an employer, master or critic. Finally, the apprenticeship 
completed and having arrived at master-craftsmanship, He 
will admit us to full and unlimited partnership. But this can 
only have its ultimate accomplishment when we shall have 
worked out our destiny on earth by the establishment of God's 
Ideal Kingdom among men. 

In Jesus this consummation was complete. In Him, love 
and intelligence was perfectly harmonized into a free intellec- 
tual entity; by His teachings, example and atonement, this 



VI. 

state and condition is made available to all humanity ; but 
Christ's Kingdom is to be established here on earth among 
men, so far as we are now concerned. The mistake which 
has heretofore been made by the high priests of esthetical 
"osophies" and religious cults and paganisms of the un- 
reality and, as well, by most christian doctrinaires until 
the advent in recent times of exact scientific knowledge, 
has been, in imagining that we can enter the Kingdom 
of God by any other road than by the establishment of 
His Kingdom on earth. God's Kingdom on earth with the 
Christ Intellect governing and reigning is not an impractical 
idealism; it is the only practical materialsm. Nothing else is 
practical whatsoever, as we shall eventually learn. The 
disciples asked Jesus, "Who then may be saved?" referring to 
the statement of Christ that it is easier for a camel to go 
through the eye of a needle that for a rich man to enter the 
Kingdom of God. To this Jesus answered saying, "With men 
this were impossible ; but with God all things are possible." 
Some day, and I believe that right soon, Christianity will be 
freed from the necessity of evading such a positive statement 
of Jesus by means of subterfuge ; it is apparent that the dis- 
ciples did not seek to so evade it by seeking some figurative 
needle's eye large enough for a camel to pass through with 
difficulty ; nor did Jesus in His final answer leave room for any 
such an assumption. The parables of Jesus and every term he 
used were positive, not one was negative. Jesus did not know 
how God would finally get rid of the curse of riches and the 
consequent curse of poverty ; He only knew that they were 
incompatable with the Kingdom of God and that they would 
certainly be gotten rid of in God's good time. And so they 
will. Satan says they won't and seeks to entrench himself 
behind subterfuge. Christ says they will, Which will win? 

Now let us take stock of the actual environment at present 
entrusted to us as apprentices for our experimentation and 
edification. At this time, men and women, churches and 
nations face a situation pregnant with possibilities, involving 
in their solution, as but only once before, the salvation or 
damnation of mankind. 

Students and observers of every branch of human knowl- 
edge have noted two characteristics in the evolutionary pro- 
cesses of creation ; one of slow growth and development ; the 
other a critical, catacylsmic stage, marking profound organic 
change. 

This is true of all the natural kingdoms of which we have 
cognizance, and also of the spiritual kingdom so far as we 
have attained reactivity to it. 

Happily for the optimist, notwithstanding innumerable 



VII. 

evidences of retrogression, error and incident evil, in both of 
these kingdoms, the steps of progress are still more clearly- 
marked, and even that which from direct view presents as- 
pects of unmitigated evil, indirectly or on the reverse, presents 
invariably a picture of worth and utility, so that he is justified 
in his faith in the integrity of the whole. 

If however his philosophy leads him to self-satisfaction, 
inactive contentment and stagnation, basking in a surfeit of 
material well-being; if he considers all things from the stand- 
point of individual and personal benefit — and in this should be 
included every narrowing influence of family, class, sect, 
nation and race, — or indeed from any viewpoint that does not 
widen itself so as to include all humanity; far better for him 
had he suffered some great physical handicap, such as blind- 
ness, in order that his vision might have been directed inward. 

Churches and nations are as much subject to this law as 
individuals. The spirit and teachings of the age have been 
just some such an optimism, where they have not indeed 
passed beyond, to the production of a desructive pessimism. 
These conditions have been obscured and hidden by great 
activity in material directions, and qualified by certain well- 
insulated forms of charity and public spirit, but, in the main, 
blind or deaf to the deep inwardness of the impulse for a wider 
and purer application of unselfishness, not alone in its indi- 
vidual, but particularly in its religious, national and racial 
aspects. 

Europe is reaping the harvest of its self-satisfied optimism 
on the one hand, and its blatant pessimism on the other. Not- 
withstanding, out of these, when the present frightful cata- 
clysm is past, every true optimist of balanced judgment is 
justified in anticipating that ultimate great good shall come, 
in the revival and extension to wider spheres of application 
of the only true and perfect optimism of Christ. 

But what of this great nation ; what of ourselves ; we 
Americans, citizens as we are of a great christian common- 
wealth, be we Jew or Gentile, be we followers of Mohammed, 
Buddha, Brahma, Cpnfucius or of Jesus, be we Protestant or 
Catholic, be we from the shores of Europe, Asia or Africa or 
from the Isles of the sea ; let us hear and know the truth, yes 
and from henceforth speak it; that in accepting citizenship in 
this Great Altruistic Republic ; in subscribing to its doctrines 
of Freedom, Liberty and interdependence within the Law, not 
of man, but of Nature and Nature's God, we become, con- 
sciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously, whatsoever else 
we are or think we are, followers of Christ and Children of 
God. 



VIII. 

And happy shall we, of this great nation be, — created as it 
was from profoundly spiritual elements and under profoundly 
dramatic circumstances; heirs to a virgin soil and a virgin 
philosophy; with an internal and external history showing 
great virility and marked reactivity to advanced human con- 
ceptions of altruism, as was evidenced in the result of our civil 
war, in the liberation of the slaves and our subsequent recon- 
struction on a broader, truer and firmer basis ; in our unselfish 
attitude in Cuba, Porto Rico and The Philippines and towards 
Japan, China, Mexico and other countries; in our Doctrine of 
Monroe as expressed and frequently applied ; — happy shall we 
indeed be, if we shall adequately fulfil our manifest destiny, 
especially in the face of present actualities, by now awakening 
and bringing to full maturity our national conscience and 
consciousness, so as to cleanse ourselves — not superficially, 
like the Chinaman, to save our face — but inwardly by rededi- 
cating and reconsecrating ourselves, and if need be reorganiz- 
ing and reconstructing our whole basic life, with full aware- 
ness, so as to conform in all things to the Ideal of Christ, 
which is the Will of God. In no other way can we hope to win 
a felictiy that is worth while, that of a divine destiny divinely 
fulfilled, which alone is capable of justifying us to ourselves 
and to God, either as individuals, churches or nations. 

Christ spoke as one having authority, and so this nation, 
out of its heritage of Christ's spirit as embodied in its funda- 
mental laws and declarations and in most of its statutes, its 
peculiar experiences and composite citizenship, shall be called, 
in the fullness of time, to speak with conscious authority to the 
whole world, and if need be suffer martyrdom for its prin- 
ciples. 

But how may this be, if we as citizens and organic sects and 
bodies deny to our nation her true place in our hearts and 
minds ; that deep reverence and respect that shows itself, not 
in loud-mouthed and self-seeking patriotism or in narrow, 
weak and selfish class and sectarian pharisaism, but which 
causes us to be awake and jealous of her honor in little as in 
big things ; that subordinates, understandingly, individual, 
sectarian and corporate interests to the nation's higher inter- 
ests, not alone in times or trial and of danger, but in days of 
peace and plenty ; that considers the conservation of her 
resources, the public funds, the honest and careful administra- 
tion of her affairs, be they great or small, as sacred; that is, 
above all, ever watchful that that highest quality of divinity, 
Pure Justice, tempered by love and mercy, shall be meted in 
her name, equally to the high and low, the strong and the 
weak ; and finally, that is at all times mindful that her spiritual 
integrity be not undermined by insidious enemies, but that it 



IX. 

be conserved, deepened, strengthened and clarified, until in 
this nation, The Christ, Humanity's Hope, shall again find 
complete and perfect conscious expression. 

Jesus was human in his temptation ; satan was with him in 
the wilderness. So also is this nation human, but like Jesus, it 
has a divine destiny. Satan is here also in our midst, and he 
will never be conquered until we set about consciously to 
conquer him, with a perfect realizing sense of our power, 
through The Christ, to do so. Jesus did not conquer 
satan unconsciously; satan's power never was uncon- 
sciously overcome. His strength lies in unconsciousness 
and in lack of consciousness to responsibilities to God and to 
His creation and it is only through the awakened conscious- 
ness to these obligations that The Christ can fully enter to 
guide us over the only possible road of progress. 

Terrible had it been for humanity had Jesus failed us in 
His temptation, we his christian followers must believe, and 
even so, terrible shall it certainly be for this nation and for 
humanity, if it fail in these days of its temptation. 

Unconsciousness and sub-consciousness can lead us to the 
cross-road but only full consciousness can give us light to 
recognize the cross and strength to assume and bear its 
burden, not only without complaints and rebellion, but with 
great joy that we should thus highly honored and trusted by 
God. 

If the underlying idea of the writer is duly apprehended, 
the reader of these poems should be harmoniously led to the 
thought which I have sought to express in this "Foreword", 
with compelling force upon every human and divine relation- 
ship, in individual, family, political,, social and religious life. 
Should this aim be effected in any degree whatsoever then 
his labor shall not have been in vain. 

In closing the writer wishes to make grateful acknowledg- 
ment to Mr. John Boardman of Iloilo, P. I., for the use of his 
library and to the Rev. Chas. L. Mears of the First Congrega- 
tional Church of Alameda, Cal., for the inspiration derived 
from association with him and with the broad minded church 
membership of which he is the honored leader, which has 
permitted the writer to get into renewed touch with the 
organic Life of Christ. This is said without any spirit of 
criticism for other forms of christian development, all of 
which the writer has come to know are performing important 
and necessary functions towards the production of a common 
result. THE AUTHOR. 

Alameda, Cal., August 2, 1915. 



A UNIVERSAL PRAYER. 

Oh ! Thou Law of Laws and Judge of Judges ! 

Oh! Thou Ruler of Rulers and Father of Fathers! 

Thou in whom all order and purpose, beauty and harmony 

exists ! 
Thou through whom we have all knowledge and realization! 
Oh ! Thou Giver of all good and gracious gifts ! 
To Thee we bow our humiliated heads in supplication. 
Pardon, Thou, Thy children's willful, wayward folly ; 
That still resists Thy proffered love and care; 
Still blindly follows after God's of Self unholy ; 
That once again has led them into hell's dark depths of black 

despair. 
Send Thou once more to us Thy gracious guidance ; 
That we may yet again assure our faltering souls, 
That Thou, indeed, art God of Hope and not of Vengeance; 
That, Thou, indeed, art He of whom The Christ extolled. 
Oh ! Lord forgive, we pray Thee, our stiff-necked pride ; 
Our self-conceit, vanity, greed and guile; 
That time on times unnumbered Thy Radiant Light has 

crucified ; 
Oh ! once more grant us vision of Thy sweet, forgiving smile. 
Hasten, quickly hasten, Lord, the breaking of Thy day, 
When mankind's bitter, selfish battle shall be won, 
When through Thy earthly children's minds, a ray, 
Direct from Thee, shall freely go and come; 
Whereby one and all shall see and know and fully realize 
Thine ordered love, which beats and pulses through Thy 

universe, 
Is the only source and fountain for the wise, 
Whose living waters alone can quench hell's burning thirst. 



THE GOAL OF PROGRESS. 

Intelligence in man is a growing germ, 
A burning, glowing, restless flame, 
That penetrates its eager, resistless way- 
Through every state and realm and clime ; 
It scales the heights, explores the grave ; 
No gloom too dark, nor depth too deep, 
Nor distance too great to brave. 
Yea, Infinity itself, doth challenge ; 
That every secret of suns and worlds afar, 
Like those of scarce nearer range, 
Buried within the microscopic cell 
Of cytoplasm and chromosomes, *1 
Electron, atom and phantom ray, all shall tell 
Their tale complete, yield up 
Time's garnered stores of experience ; 
A pure and nutrient fruit; a just inheritance 
And fitting to the actual mortal soul 
By man achieved; attained 
Through countless cycles 
Of progressive. order and cataclysmic change; 
(Intelligence intuitive, reactive, real ; 
Ignorance rebellious, retroactive, unreal.) 
Love, life and joy; sin, death and pain, 
Mutinous in service and sacrifice 
To the Almighty Ideal that overrules ; 
Which now in him lives, labors, fights 
And wins an ever wider, conscious sway ; 

In Jesus, The Christ, first human born, complete and pure, 
Was gladly shed the redeeming flood of innocence ; 
A vital, widespread, regnant spore ; 
For which each mental cell of anabolic sense, 
Must eager wait and welcome give that catabolic force ; *2 
Until shall fully germinate and reproduce 
Pure Intellects Immortal, a worthy race, 
Conditioned to live and know All Truth, 
Perfected to react in God's Supernal Environment. 

*1. See footnote on pp. 31. 

2. Anabolism and catabolism (or katabolism) are two 
corresponding phases of metabolism, that is of the life pro- 
cesses. In anabolism, we have a synthetic or building up 
process, or assimilation. In catabolism, this is reversed with 
the liberation of energy. Catabolism and anabolism go on 
together, but one may predominate and obscure the other. 

The anabolic power of animal cells is small and catabolism 
(in consequence of their greater activity) is usually greater 



THE PHILIPPINES. *1 

As from my azotea, *2 
I sit and contemplate, 
This mystic, tropic beauty, 
I can feel my soul dilate ; 
That to me it has been given, 
This grandest privilege, 
To spend some years of living, 
In this divine mirage. 

To hear the tender lisping 
Of the gentle south monsoon, *3 
Its sweetness freely sipping, 
Nature's concentrate perfume, 
Absorbed from sea girt Isles, 
Then o'er her heaving bosom 
Full many a thousand miles 
Carried to this Garden Eden. 

To see the glowing eye 
Of morning in the East, 
Arising in majesty; 
No other clime such feast 
Of regal might and power, 
Within its light and heat, 
A promise to endower 
The earth with life complete. 



than in plants ; the former require complex, organic substances 
(proteids, carbohydrates, fats, etc.) as nutriments, and secrete 
simple substances, as water, carbon dioxide, urea, etc., as the 
products of catabolism. In contradistinction, the cells com- 
posing the green tissues of plants are highly anabolic, building 
up these very substances required by the animal organism, 
carbohydrates from the carbon dioxide of the air by photo- 
synthesis, and utilizing these substances with the nitrates and 
other mineral salts absorbed from the soil in the construction 
of these complex compounds, and also in various useful secre- 
tions and by-products. 

A balance is continually taking place between these two 
interdependent phases which is a source of never ceasing 
wonder and delight to the intelligent observer, and when fully 
understood, in their relationship to the processes of reproduc- 
tion and their bearing on progressive development, their lesson 
to the seeker of truth is conclusive. 



Here we see Creation, 
As though before the fall, 
In the act of waking 
Her highest form of all, 
By Her magic beauty 
To primal self-consciousness, 
In abundance, all necessity 
Supplying his weakness. 

Here man, his eyes uplifted 

To kindly Providence, 

Is clearly most unfitted, 

By his dependence, 

Himself to elevate, 

Control his destinies, 

Without the guide and mandate, 

That experience decrees. 

Yet they who come to govern, 

Must also recognize, 

That rapid change and aspect stern, 

With no desire to sympathize, 

Or keep their ideals pure, 

Will cause degeneration 

To their unformed character, 

Instead of elevation. 

As for the natives gentle, 
They will come to realize, 
With joy and thanks, most grateful, 
That nature's ways are wise ; 
For to them the choice was given, 
To escape life's fuller knowledge, 
Man's deeper wage of sin, 
His sacrificial heritage. 



1. In ths poem, the writer has sought to convey his idea, 
obtained from sixteen years of intimate observation of the 
meaning of life in a primitive, tropical environment. Hereto- 
fore man has had little or no necessity to be active or progress- 
ive; only a hitherto restricted external contact has awakened 
appetites, desires and ambitions which the abundance of a 
provident nature cannot directly supply; but, even so, the 
relative ease with which these can be satisfied does not tend 
to develope much individual capacity, but has, in a way, pro- 
duced a racial and national self-consciou sness which is 
demanding, somewhat incoherently, its right to a normal 



Then again to mother nature, 

Can turn and meditate, 

Her varied form and feature, 

Sufficing to satiate, 

The needs of all her children, 

If only we obey, 

The call to duty bidden 

To each, from day to day. 

Learn in their setting sun, 
Its glory in the West, 
That paints the mighty dome 
Above the mountain crest, 
That lights their azure sea 
With such iridescence, 
That blind indeed were he, 
Its lesson not to sense. 

And in their dreamful moon's delight, 
Whose beams through waving palm leaves 

glide, 
That in mystery gild their night, 
Find faith that will abide, 
And calm their vanity, 
Content their hearts and minds, 
That in sharing nature's purity 
Still greater wealth shall find. 

development. Our duty, in the premises, would seem to be, 
out of our wider and more profound experiences, to see that 
this privilege be not denied, but that it be given true and right 
direction. In doing this conscientously, we will gain both in 
character and in material well-being, as much or more than we 
give. 

*2. An "azotea" is a wide verandah or roof garden. 

3. The monsoons are the periodical winds which blow, in 
the Indian Ocean, from the south west from April to October, 
and from the northeast the other part of the year. During the 
latter period they bring with them the rains which are so 
essential to the productivity of the soil, while the former is 
marked by warm, dry weather, during which the crops are 
planted and harvested. They fulfill functions similar, but 
simpler and more benign, to those performed by the ruder 
climatic changes of the temperate zones. 

When one can be located so as to receive the benefit of 
these usually gentle breezes, the climate is as near that of 
paradise as is conceivable. 



NATURE'S SECRET. 
(SEEK THOU THE LIGHT). 

Nature, in the making 

Of this good old mundial sphere 

Pursued a wondrous plan, 

Her secret deeply hiding 

In the slefish blindness 

Of Her highest product, Man. 

Where'ere our eyes we turn, 
We see Her just beyond, 
Whispering, calling, beckoning, 
Yet ne'er the lesson learn, 
Although 'tis written clear 
In all things, dead and living. 

Her bounty, freely given 

To each of us and all, 

We grasp like misers : 

Thus Her hope is fallen 

By mental man destroyed, 

Self-centered cowards ! Traitors ! 

Think ye Her patience endless? 
Seek the lesson in the skies, 
Of Her never ceasing effort 
To devise, some worthier process, 
Which gained, will then consign 
Us to oblivion and forget. 

Consider ye the lily, 
The horse, the bee, the bird, 
W r ith joy fulfilling duty ; 
Then ask thine Ego, silly, 
What use thy mental manhood, 
If not to seek the truth. 

Meditate thy lowly origin, 

Learn it whence thou wilt, 

In science or theology ; 

Nor think thus far hadst come 

Save as by heritage 

Ot sacrifice to knowledge. 



Nor that thy course yet finished; 

The heights as yet attained, 

Of Nature's projection; 

While yet through ye is tarnished, 

By selfish evil stained, 

Her efforts for perfection. 

This thine end and aim ; 
To develope within thee, 
Perfect Spirituality, 
Immortality to gain ; 
Throw off thy finite fetters 
For Infinite Eternity. 

Know ye thou art in prison, 
Enchained by worldliness, 
Self thy tyrant keeper ; 
Straining for light and freedom 
Within thy very being, 
Unselfish spirit suffers. 

In answer to thy failure, 
A sign and proof was given, 
Thy weakness to assist; 
Of perfection in Nature, 
Her ultimate sacrifice, 
That faith on earth persist, 

Who then, as now, for gold was sold, 
His life and death a parable 
That time shall surely fathom ; 
The simple meaning true unfold, 
That Nature's God is crucified 
'Till mankind conquers mammon. 



MY ISLE. 

Seekest thou contement and peace and happiness? 

Come with me. 
I know of an Isle, in a rainbow sea, 

Of blessedness, 
Where pain and sorrow cease. 

As we sail along, we will leap, 

Leaving the cowards behind ; 

In its waters cleanse deep, 

Bid farewell to the blind; 

And our faith will bear us along 

Until we reach the shore, 

Where our hearts will join in the song, 

Joy and gladness forevermore. 

Wouldst know the secret of wisdom and knowledge? 

Come with me. 
To my wonderful Isle in its magic sea, 

Whose outer edge 
Is where ignorance turns to perception. 

When our feet touch its golden strand, 

And the light in its fullness we see, 

In the beat of the surge on the sand, 

Joining deep in complete harmony : 

In the voices that laden the breeze, 

By the tones that burden the song, 

In the chords as they strike through the trees, 

Inspire perfect realization. 

Is freedom from sin they desire, and rest? 

Come with me. 
To my peaceful Isle, in its glistening sea, 

And know the best, 
That faith and hope can require. 

Pillowed in roses and moss, 
Whose perfume supreme and divine, 
Is wafted through garden and forest, 
Killed with glory from every clime ; 
Hate, passion, envy and jealousy 
In exile without the door ; 
Love, faith, hope and charity 
The keys to admit rich and poor. 

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REALIZATION. 

Across the breadth of the land, 
We see it full teeming with life, 

Strata on strata rising-, 

Masses by classes surviving, 
Seeking outlet on every hand, 
Facing inevitable strife ; 
That shall teach every state its condition 
And relation to approaching fruition. 

Science is learning the secret, 

And conquering the cause of disease, 

Aided by sanitation, 

Supported by education, 
All life, noxious and parasite, 
Destroying and giving release; 
Removing this cause and condition 
That retards the approaching fruition. 

Ingenuity by mechanism 

Is increasing productiveness ; 

By means of dynamic power, 

Releasing vitalic labor ; 
Elevating from their abysm, 
Vital units in form rendered useless ; 
Whose decrease but marks the condition 
That foreshadows the approaching fruition. 

The nations shall yet be united 
In true community of interest, 

Recognizing interdependence 

Of regions, zones and races. 
Governments shall everywhere be freighted 
With efforts supreme against contest ; 
Christ's mission on earth this condition, 
The bud of approaching fruition. 

Society itself is reacting, 
Even religion, sect and creed ; 

In closer rapproachment, 

Their lesson learnt, 
That truth is in everything ; 
Pure philosophy the seed ; 
That teaches man his condition 
And place in approaching fruition. 



Capital and labor organic, 

At last are finding their sphere, 

Of action coordinate, 

In union cooperate 
Harnessed to law with rein and bit, 
Guiding their progress and purpose here; 
By struggles grim shall be taught their condition 
And part in advancing approaching fruition. 

Wealth and power are learning, 
Their utter worthlessness, 

If gained and spent, 

Without intent, 
To satisfy their longing, 
To lift up God's masses, 
Unconsciously by their condition, 
Showing the earth is approaching fruition. 

In the debris that marks the pathway, 
To the heights of present attainment, 

On nature's pages 

Down the ages 
There's the impress deep on her sub-conscious 

memory 
Which arises to promise fulfilment, 
And illumines God's recorded condition, 
To have faith in the approaching fruition. 

Even womankind has broken her fetters, 
That bound her in bonds from below ; 

Demanding and taking, 

Her just part in creating, 
Not alone purer mansions by nature, 
But environments where clean souls may grow, 
Thus showing God needs her condition 
To perfect His approaching fruition. 

So we'll dedicate our free intellects, 

To aid in the consummation 
Of this wonderful labor 
Of God Almighty through nature, 

By broadening the room at the apex, 

Of her pyramid "Evolution". 

Thus proving we know our condition, 

And our place in approaching fruition. 

10 



And oft' though the powers of pessimism, 
Lead us down through the depths of hell ; 

Need we weep and pine? 

While God's spark Divine, 
The pure, sweet tones of His optimism, 
Strikes full and clear as from a vibrant bell, 
With His living proof through all changing conditions, 
That His love on earth shall attain full fruition. 



*NOTE: This poem was written several years ago, while in the 
Philippines. The fourth verse then read in the present, active tense, 
but has since been adjusted to bring it into harmony with actualities 
in Europe, which does not in any wise effect the poem's significance as 
the motive in the first stanza shows the writer's realization that more 
or less profound cataclysmic action was still necessary to mold 
humanity into harmony. The last verse was added also for a similar 
reason. Thus the war in Europe is made to occupy its true place and 
importance in the scheme of things; that of an incident, necessary 
in its implications, but unworthy of being elevated to the heights the 
retro-actionaries would have us believe. Its purpose is, and must be 
salutory, and sooner or later, by this or some other cataclysm, 
humanity shall finally be brought into adjustment in their national 
and racial relationships, as well as individual, in harmony with the 
Divine Will, Ideal and Purpose of God. 

The writer hopes that the time is ripe for the establishment 
of this realized relationship, in this country at least, as the 
result of free, conscious, voluntary conviction which may be 
expressed in peaceful action in such wise as to serve all 
nations and all races as a model of this ideal. 



11 



THE GUARDIANS. 

I. 

Modern woman; Caucasian woman; 

Nature is weighing you now in her balance ; 

Occident and orient are now in her scales, 

To be measured and voided if false to their chance. 

Nature don't care and nature don't listen ; 
To your vaulting esthetics ; your loud-sounding noise ; 
She won't take excuses or hear your pet vagaries ; 
She demands that true goods be delivered, not toys. 

With you, in full faith, she banked all her hopes ; 
Invested in you all her savings and treasure ; 
Soon she will ask a full statement accounting; 
How will your merchandise balance and measure? 

Come down from the clouds ; attend to your business ; 

None will dare rob or deny you full pay ; 

For the excellence of service and the beauty of sacrifice, 

To The Christ, not to men, for this strength you must pray. 

II. 

Modern man ; Caucasion man : 

Think not you escape unscathed if you shirk ; 

Money and glory are lighter than feathers, 

If not weighted and freighted with God's consecrate work. 

God does not care and God does not listen 

To your scoundrel complaint of your companion woman : 

'Tis yours to cherish, uplift and assist her, 

Not to degrade and then spurn and abandon. 

Nature to woman entrusted her treasure ; 
Of you God demands self-control and dominion ; 
His covenant sealed with the blood of the cross 
Till The Christ reappears to establish His kingdom. 

Then awake and return from the tending of swine, 
From your vile mess of pottage and husks ; 
Your Father is waiting and longing to greet you, 
If you'll only surrender and return to your trust. 

In the reference to "woman" in the preceding poem, "Realization", 
the writer recognized woman's right to extend her sphere of influence 
in a rational way. But it is the height of folly for her, as it is also 
for man, not to recognize their limitations. 

Woman is and must be predominently anabolic. Man is and must 
be predominently catabolic. The two must harmonize on the common 
plane of metabolism. This is only idealy possible when they mutually 
seek for understanding at the fount and source of these processes, in 
prayer and communion with God and with nature and with one 
another. 

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CONSECRATED. 

To feel pure and clean, 
Freed from sin and desire, 
Satisfied with duty well done 
Whatever reward it may bring ; 
Knowing beyond peradventure, 
Filled to your depths with content, 
Heart, mind and soul satisfied, 
At peace with God and with nature. 

If you want to do wrong, 

Then you can't do wrong, 

Isn't it wonderful! 

Isn't it beautiful ! 

Isn't it peaceful ! 



To be sure beyond question or doubt, 
That your debt to the world shall be paid, 
Fulfilled and fulfilling true aim 
In action, in deed, word and thought; 
Seeking not man's applause or his praise, 
Accepting good or evil, the same, 
Knowing that truth will suffice, 
To vanity no longer a slave. 

If you want to do wrong, 

Then you can't do wrong, 

Isn't it wonderful ! 

Isn't it beautiful ! 

Isn't it peaceful ! 



To see in its fulness the light, 
As it flows in heat from the sky, 
As it gleams and glistens the wave, 
Shining by day and by night. 
To realize our conception of things 
Is but proof of the wonder beyond, 
To which this life and its labor 
Completed, perfect answer brings. 

If you want to do wrong, 

Then you can't do wrong, 

Isn't it wonderful ! 

Isn't it beautiful ! 

Isn't it peaceful ! 



13 



To be in complete harmony, 
With each impulse supreme, 
That flows through the universe, 
In perfect synchrony ; 
To feel in the depths of your being 
Each string of will true keyed, 
To react to the delicate touch 
Of Sensate Nature's fingering. 

If you want to do wrong, 

Then you can't do wrong, 

Isn't it wonderful ! 

Isn't it beautiful ! 

Isn't it peaceful ! 



To read the promise that's written, 

More clear than that on the wall, 

In geology, botany, biology, 

Astronomy, force, all Creation : 

Thus to turn unfraid to the future, 

Facing birth, life and death and their stings, 

Secure in the confident justice, 

To be measured by the Almighty of Nature. 

If you want to do wrong, 

Then you can't do wrong, 

Isn't it wonderful ! 

Isn't it beautiful ! 

Isn't it peaceful ! 



14 



HUMANITY AWAKEN. 

Oh ! for words to awaken 

The world to appreciation 

And knowledge of itself. 

To make men think and ponder, 

To question and to wonder, 

Their why and wherefore felt. 

Oh ! for power and command, 
To make them understand 
Their futile efforts, 
To find joy in wealth and pleasure, 
Gained, but lost the treasure, 
That sacrifice imparts. 

Oh ! to clearly show the cost, 
That by winning- is lost, 
Beyond redemption ; 
Of trying to repay 
When nearing their day 
Of justification. 

That they seize their opportunity, 

In surrender to duty 

While yet they may. 

By learning truth and wisdom 

Taught clearly in the system 

Of nature's way. 

Oh ! to aid them to felicity 
To be gained by simple purity 
Of thought and motive ; 
By lifting up the prostrate, 
Giving happiness to elevate, 
Their hope superlative. 

Oh ! ye men and women, 
Ye blind to every vision, 
Around, about; 
Look and see and listen, 
Awaken to your mission, 
No longer doubt. 



15 



Oh ! ye blind that lead the blind, 
Rise up and free your minds, 
Of unfaithfulness. 
Examine and give credence 
To nature's truth and evidence, 
True Christliness. 



Away ye creeds unfounded, 

By human weakness bounded, 

In misconception. 

Suffice the simple teaching, 

Christ's life and death beseeching, 

Self-martyrdom 

And give to patient science, 
Support and full compliance, 
In trust and faith. 
That through her shall discover, 
Our right to live recover, 
And conquer death. 



This poem was written without a knowledge, since obtained, of 
the completeness with which modern theology, generally speaking, 
has adapted and harmonized itself, to the new dispensation of truth 
founded upon the facts of science; and also with only a very academic 
knowledge, since happily verified as taking place literally, of the 
grand reciprocity of action, reaction and interaction of proof which 
is taking place between the two, leading to a correlation of under- 
standing between two interdependent modes of comprehension, the 
reveled, inspired and emotional, and the experimental and scientific. 
However the necessity for a fuller appreciation of this interde- 
pendence is still very great, especially among certain reactionary 
sects and some recent spiritual movements of the purely emotional 
type, which still blindly seek to deny, stem and retard this united 
current of truth, the one branch of which is as truly divine as the 
best that can be claimed by the other; and also, in order that all those 
blasphemers of the name of God and of Christ Jesus, who, claiming 
direct heritage of divine authority, either temporal or spiritual, seek 
for their own advantage to enslave and, as a consequence, degrade 
humanity, by the very means which God gave for his freedom and 
salvation, his independent intellect and judgment. 

Science, as it becomes fuller understood, will act as a clarifying 
agent for truth, permitting in a greater degree than heretofore, and 
indeed compelling eventually the realization and comprehension of 
truth and of righteousness in a manner that will purify all our rela- 
tionships with one another and with God. 



16 



THE CATACLYSM OF HATE. 

The Dragons of Hate are rampant, 
Unfurled are the banners of war, 
With peal of cannon and shriek of shell, 
The Nations of Europe rush down into hell, 
Deaf to the trumpet sound, lost in the roar, 
First call of the Master to Judgment. 



Then enter ye slaves of passion, 
With your surfeit of doubt and distrust, 
The arena is ready, and hungry the beast, 
Forward then ! Steady ! On with the feast ! 



Render your Ceasers their dues of lust, 

Reek not nor reckon the weak that are crushed, 

The weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth 

Are but echos that rise from the swords ye unsheath, 

The hearths that are blackened, the babes left unfed, 

Wives, mothers and sisters alone with their dread. 



Drink deep of the cup, brimful, overflowing 

With the gall and the wormwood of forty years brewing. 

Loudly acclaim your proud fetish of race, 

Yea, loud must it be if it drown your disgrace. 

Praise ye, your false prophets of power and might 

Mayhap by your praises the black shall be white. 

Widespread the swath of the earth's tribulation, 

That out of her anguish may arise new creation ; 

Feed well your monsters with envy and hate, 

Thus the earth ye shall free from their burden ingrate, 

The vipers that too long have fed at her breast, 

Deaf to her passionate love and behest, 

That all her counsels to patience have spurned, 

Yea, even the Gospels of Christ have unlearned. 



17 



But to those of us granted true vision and light, 
The Nations The Christ has placed on His right, 
Let us hasten and heed to His trumpet call, 
Let us trim our wicks, fill our lamps with oil, 
Make haste for the bridegroom cometh, 
And woe unto them whom His coming shunneth. 
Yes, hasten and cleanse out our platter and cup, 
For His service ready when he cometh to sup, 
From extortion and excess purified, 
Not only the surface, but also inside. 



Lift high our voices in anthems of praise, 

With His crown of thorns on our banner raise, 

Him be our mottoe, in His Love, hope and trust ; 

For Christ is no myth, but God's Prince of Compassion. 



For to Him alone shall hate recumbent, 

Yield up the red banners of war, 

When His Spirit shall conquer o'er cannon and shell, 

Then all nations, new born, shall arise from hell, 

To welcome His trumpet sound evermore, 

Calling all mankind to Judgment. 



18 



THE JUDGMENT SEAT. 

Resting one night in my hammock, 

Eyes unseeing, affixed on space, 

Thought and consciousness afloat 

In exploration of the maze, 

Beyond man's realm and limitation, 

In freedom unconfined, 

A contact struck of profound sensation, 

That carried impress to my mind. 

Beat: Beat: Beat:, 
In measure clear and deep, 
Each mighty throb pulsating, 
From a centre gravitating, 
To each distant sun, and star, and satellite. 

And on each impulse glowing, 
With energy supreme, 
I felt my spirit flowing 
And expanding in the stream ; 
Permeated with a vigor 
From each recurring rhythm, 
Like the access from the motor 
Of a mighty organism. 
Beat: Beat: Beat: 
Resistence meant defeat, 
Magnetic force attracting, 
By its influence abstracting. 
Life's universal fruit, 

In the rapid flowing currents, 

Uniting forming rivers, 

Soon the centre of convergence 

Reached, within the Heart of Nature. 

And now began a process 

Within this organism, 

Sifting, weighing, dealing justice 

With a terrible precision. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
Each action full, complete, 
One absolute decision, 
No court of revision, 
For influence, wealth or legalite. 



19 



Each unit of life vitalic 
Passing through in quick succession 
Nature's centres organic, 
Formed indeed a rare procession. 
From the simple force atomic, 
Through the grades of evolution, 
Molecular, plasmic, embryonic, 
To the highest unit, human. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
Spirit perfect seek, 
Materiality resisting, 
Capable of existing, 
In Eternal Infinite. 



And among the countless millions, 
Here and there one appeared, 
Rising as on mighty pinions, 
Self-sustaining, unafeared. 
And to these a portal opened, 
Lighting up the mass of sadness, 
With a moment's vision blessed, 
Filled with hope, and joy, and gladness. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
They who enter must repeat, 
By effort striving, 
And achieving, 
Soul's dominion, self defeat. 



Thence the process led us further, 
Through a multitude of stations, 
Cleansing, building up of character, 
Purer, deeper imaginations, 
With a broader width of purpose, 
Confirming nature's laws, immutable, 
Fixed on evolution's basis, 
Even where they seem inscrutable. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
The labor is now replete, 
With the essence 
Of nature's presence, 
Resume thy service incomplete. 



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And some there were had entered, 
Clothed in purple robes, and gold, 
Returning now pride humbled, 
To delve among the mould. 
Still others in happy absence, 
The accepted of the Blest, 
Had suffered earthly sacrifice, 
To find at last their rest. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
In sums of force and heat, 
This fluid impregnating, 
In vitality dfissintatin 
All the universe from nature's seat 



Conforming to their merit, 

In advancing nature's progress, 

Resumed atom, force and unit, 

Their place within her service, 

And some there were who mounted high, 

But many retrograded, 

And some of common fibre ply, 

Like myself, were reinstated. 

Beat: Beat: Beat: 
Be thou no longer weak, 
Spirit reincarnated, 
Force regenerated, 
Volition free, thy duty seek. 



21 



THE CROSS ROAD. 

They, who stand on life's pinnacle "Time," 
And gaze back o'er the weary roads, 
That stretch afar, and up and down, 
Till the view is lost in the mist that clouds 
And closes each door at the horizon, 
Must have felt the sting of a whip and goad. 
For none may come and none may go, 
Without sounding the depths of weal and woe. 
From some pinnacle deep in the shades of hell, 
From some hill, or crag, hear the notes of a bell, 
That calls for an answering echo. 

Then slowly awaken the senses asleep, 
Drunken and sodden with pleasure and lust, 
To the resounding blows and the marching feet, 
Of the hosts and armies midst the smoke and dust, 
In the throes of hell's dark infernal heat, 
That blinds out the light of hope and trust, 
For none may come and none may go, 
Without sounding the depths of weal and woe, 
From some pinnacle deep in the shades of hell, 
From some hill or crag, hear the notes of a bell, 
That calls for an answering echo. 

Grim and stark are the phantoms seen, 
That struggle in muck and slime, 
And everywhere, as the sight grows keen, 
To the mirrored reflections of error and crime, 
One face distorted and low and mean, 
Slowly evolves and that is mine. 

For none may come and none may go, 
Without sounding the depths of weal and woe, 
From some pinnacle deep in the shades of hell, 
From some hill or crag, hear the notes of a bell, 
That calls for an answering echo. 

Heart and mind from the horrors recoil, 

The strength we had felt is lost, 

We tremble, and falter, and stumble, and fall, 

On the brink of the precipice see the cost, 

So out of our anguish is born a soul, 

That seizes and clings to the cross. 

For none may come and none may go, 
Without sounding the depths of weal and woe, 
From some pinnacle deep in the shades of hell, 
From some hill or crag, hear the notes of a bell, 
And return the glad answering echo. 

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WHAT BOON IS THIS TO DIE. 

Through bars of dim and misty sight, 
Imprisoned spirit strains for light. 

A tired voice in sad refrain, 

Asks freedom from its walls of pain ; 

Its life of penance here on earth, 

Where birth is death and death is birth. *1 

From deep within I hear this cry, 
What boon is this to die ! 

To lay down life's accumulation, 
Of experience and information, 

Vain regrets and sorrow, grief, 
Empty joys and pleasures brief, 

This body weary of the way 
That leads from cradle to decay; 

Filled with knowledge of its failure, 
To serve the needs of mother nature. 

Glad to welcome full reward 
Of justice measured in accord, 

With the use made of the talents, 
Endowed at birth, hope in the balance, 

To find a statement credit, 
Aye de mi ! should it be debit. 

Still e'en thus, in trust and faith, 
Gladly pass the doors of death ; 

Sure that at the judgment seat 

An attorney will defend the weak. *2 



*1. In every true sense, as we are at present constituted, birth is 
the equivalent of death, while death in its truest reality is birth. See 
"The Judgment Seat," page 19 and also in the last few stanzas of the 
present poem for two true conceptions of the real state, meaning, 
and condition of death. 

*2. In "The Judgment Seat" again referred to, Verse 3, an ab- 
solute judgment is implied, a judgment based on perfect justice, 

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One, who from experience, 

Can plead the cause of man's defense. 

He, who here attained perfection, 
His life of sacrifice, His Passion, 

For us a willing sign and proof 
To guide us if we but behoof. 

On Him alone can we depend, 
All of us, who at the end, 

Review a life of fallacy, 

Through Him alone can hope for mercy. 

That even failure to advance, 
May yet obtain another chance, 

To suffer not the degradation 
We truly merit in the station, 

To which the future us assign ; 
Woe to him whose sins consign 

Without the pale of penitence ; 
Woe to him his recompense ! 

To him no future but to slave, 

Nor know the sweetness of the grave. 

Enchained mayhap to mechanism, 
Without the realm of vitalism. 



automatically applied in accord with all the known qualities of God, 
as shown in His infallible natural laws, but in the execution of such 
a judicial process, the quality of mercy for the weak is of necessity 
an integral part. Yet more, its widest application to man, may, and 
in all probabilities was, permanently affected when the Human 
Christ was evolved; or this could be better expressed by saying, when 
the first human organism was perfected to react truly to the Holy 
Spirit of God, a Being capable of expressing perfectly by word, 
precept and example in terms that could not be denied, the true 
nature of The Infinite and Eternal Father; so that this quality of 
mercy, of which all human judicial systems have taken cognizance, 
was, we may well believe, through the life experiences and death of 
Christ, limited and qualified so as to involve the essential Doctrine of 
Christ, that atonement and of salvation, whereby anyone believing 
and accepting, in whatsoever degree, The Christ, such belief and 
acceptance should eternally and automatically qualify the Judgment 
of God in relation to such, thereby becoming a newly exacted 
infallible law, to save such from retrocession below the confines of 
the human race, but not within these confines. 



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Perhaps to live in chemic action, 
To long exist in putrefaction, 

Or bound within some static force, 
A slave to law without recourse, 

Or hope to e'er escape, 

No power of will to elevate, 

Save as by action of good persistent, 
Shall conquer evil's strength resistent, 

And grow through "evoltion," 
To simple plasmic attribution. 

Nature's lowest unit sensate, 
Whose functions weak, discriminate. 

Its power highly centralized 
Within a nucleus organized. 

In which low state of aggregation 
Is seen the model of creation. 

The record clear epitomized 

In chromatic fibres sensitized. *3 

Where first we find that sacrifice 

Through birth and death is the key to life; 

Wherein the cell by segmentation, 
Martyrs self in act fruition ; 

Obeying laws of higher good; 
Its joy unselfish parenthood. 

And by this nascent fealty 

To creation's plan attained ability 

To join in action mutual, 

In primal union governmental, 

Developed parts by variation, 
Sensate organs by adaptation. 

*3. The peculiar attributes and qualities of the chromatic fibres or 
chromosomes are more fully referred to in "The Wanderer" and in 
the footnote on page 31. 

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Conditioned by environment 
Every cell its lesson learnt, 

To do its duty and obey, 

A centered will, unto which they, 

React as we to impulse also 
From a source without our Ego. 

Mighty force of evil good, 
In its dual qualitude. 

Evil ever the pole resistent, 
Good restrains to act consistent. 

Evil, ignorant, fearful, vain, 

Good, intelligent, courageous, sane. 

Evil, slave of lustful pleasure, 

Good, fullgrown to freeman's stature. 

Evil narrow, conservative. 
Good, a radical, positive, 

Seeking variation, progress, change, 
Filled with theories, new and strange. 

Dreamchild, conceived by faith and love, 
Spirit descended from above, 

Crowned with beauty, joy and grace, 
Trust and hope shines on his face ; 

That wings imagination's soaring flight, 
That fires reasons burning light, 

Gilds the tongue of eloquence 
And thrills the lyre to cadence ; 

Source and power of genius, 
Inspired to guide and lead us. 

But evil is our rigid heritage, 
In error and sin his parentage. 

An old and hoary miser grasping 

Earth's present joys and pleasures blasting 

All the hope of man's redemption 
By his narrow self-pretention. 



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Anchored deep in earth material, 
Bars our spirit's flight aerial ; 

Makes us weakly falter, fear, 
Nor nature's cry to battle hear ; 

Leads us the cowards course to take 
Of jealous vanity, sin, and hate : 

So blinds our eyes and clouds our sense, 
No vision true may reach conscience; 

Glorifies stagnation, vice, 

Nor sees decay and death the price, 

That leads to degradation, 
Reversion and degeneration. 

But Thou we thank that optimism 
Shall ever conquer pessimism ; 

That no mistake e'er made by good, 
Where selfish evil was subdued, 

But serves true purpose in creation, 
Whose merit at the consummation, 

Shall surely reap its prize, 

Of meed and honor due the wise, 

They, who suffer willing sacrifice, 
Of self to aid advance, the price. 

For truth is progress neutral, 
Child, of growth, experimental, 

Attained by action and reaction, 
Advance, mistake and retrocession; 

But naught once gained surrenders, 
Its lessons buried deep remembers, 

Which in their time and place arise, 
Confounding fools and overwise, 

Whose minds affixed on speculation, 
Pretend to rise beyond their station, 



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In truth's one guiding quality, 
Of simple sacrifice to duty; 

By study and obedience 

To the lessons taught by experience. 

Wherein 'tis seen that right and wrong 
Are products of opinion; 

Must not with their prototypes, 
Be confounded, virtue, vice. 

The former mayhap but be mistake, 
The latter habit or abuse will make. 

Know that all things have a use, 
And as well a reverse abuse ; 

That in equilibrium, 

Truth is found and right opinion ; 

At whose habit to attain, 
Plato's ancient virtues strain. 

While, ever, rigid, dogmatic creed, 
To stagnation and retrocession lead. 

Note the steps of "evolution," 
Pharisaic creed, Christ's revolution, 

Retaining true Mosaic law, 
Wherein experience found no flaw, 

From out the chaff of human weakness, 
Sifting all the proven greatness, 

Engrafting from Confucianism, 
Humanity's fundamental idealism ; 

Unto others even do 

As wouldst have them do to you ; 

Guiding force reciprocal, 
Christianity's power centripetal 

Herein is where volition lies, 
Man's present hope of future rise ; 



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Learn each his own responsibility, 
Then accept with deep humility, 

His place and rank and station, 

With perfect knowledge and realization, 

That existence, present, past and future, 
Is something permanent, fixed and sure, 

Unto which we all pertain, 
Each his own reward and blame, 

Is and has and will be measured, 
According to the lessons treasured, 

Absorbed, fixed or lost, 

But woe to him, this last, the cost; 

Though he be crowned with wealth and power, 
Or falsely gained human honor; 

Woe to him, when death shall toll, 

His blackened, weakened, shrivelled soul, 

Stark naked to its judgment, 
Before All-Nature Sentient. 

Surely then will be made plain, 

The why and wherefore, end and aim, 

Of this life's rewards unequal, 
In nature's justice find the sequel, 

And reason for our spirit's cry, 
What boon is this, "In Truth," to die ! 



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PREFETORY NOTE TO "THE WANDERER." 

In view of the wide difference of opinion which still exist between 
strongly antagonistic groups regarding the question of evolution, the 
writer deems it expedient to present to the lay reader just one fact 
in evidence which is not generally known. 

Until recently the procedure in testing blood stains to determine 
their origin, whether human or animal, was involved in great difficulty 
and uncertainty. Now, however, this is no longer the case. 

If a dried stain be dissolved in water and a few drops be mixed 
separately with a small amount of blood from various animals, for 
example with that of a person, a dog, a cat and a horse, and then each 
be observed under the microscope, in some of these admixtures it will 
be seen that the fresh blood corpuscles are being dissolved and 
destroyed by the action of the dried blood, while in one only this will 
not take place but the two will harmonize perfectly. This harmony 
can only take place in bloods derived from animals of the same 
family. It is not important that the blood be from a particular breed 
of dog or of horse or of human being. Within the family relationship 
they harmonize perfectly. Outside they do not. 

In this connection, a bizarre fact was also discovered. This is 
that the blood of the anthropoid apes (chimpanzees, gibbons and 
orangs) harmonize perfectly with the bluest of human blood. 

(See Salesby's Organic Evolution, pp. 76-77.) 

This fact would seem to require no comment but it may be well 
to amplify it slightly by saying that this harmony ceases at this point 
and does not extend to the lower apes and monkeys which are thus 
evidently outside of direct human connection and relationship. 

As stated elsewhere, students and readers must guard themselves 
against hasty judgment. No claim is made by science that human 
beings are descended from apes, but it is claimed that both have a 
common ancestor from which the ape is a degenerate descendant, 
while the human being is a regenerate ascendant, which is quite a 
different thing and well worth noting for its personal and also its 
christian doctrinal bearing. 

Furthermore the point involved does not touch the root of the real 
trouble which causes the intellectual divergence of opinion over the 
question of evolution. In this not blood but consciousness is the 
technical point involved which makes it a question of psychology and 
not of biology. The writer from his studies and experiences is con- 
vinced that consciousness is the increasing (or evolutionary) desire 
of God, who is Himself the Infinite Ideal, seeking and demanding 
perfect material or substantial expression. Furthermore that this 
takes place in an ever wider and fuller degree; that it is recognied 
by God in wider and fuller revelation of Himself, accompanied by a 
deeper insight into and control over His handiwork, until finally 
perfect attainment is reached, in which God and man find eternal joy 
and felicity. 

This perfection thereby becomes a regnant, spiritual unit or 
personality, like unto God Himself, and at the same time becomes 
the realized standard in control of the sphere of action under consider- 
ation, in ths case that of humanity, the model or law to which we 
must conform. 

Through the processes of life, death, and change, the connection 
between God and His handiwork is never lost, each perfected attain- 
ment going to add to the growth and enhance the spiritual power and 

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broaden the control vested in the primal spiritual unit, while failure 
reaps its own reward. In death realization is complete, so that the 
sensate individual becomes his own judge, and were it not for the 
infinite mercy and love of God and of Christ, hope would flee forever 
from the human breast. We, and by we I mean, all nature sensate, in 
the presence of this realization and with full knowledge of our own 
waywardness would indeed condemn ourselves to the fiery hell of 
primitive theology from which God in the first instance and Christ in 
the second save us, granting us forgiveness, unless indeed we present 
ourselves with a loss instead of gain, of virtue and of spirituality. 
Even then the judgment does not involve us in any other fiery torment 
than that of degeneracy and of a full realization of the meaning of 
this, which to the writer's mind would be quite hell enough. The 
upward climb has been to my mind sufficiently hard and I don't care 
to lose one inch of the ground gained but rather to leap forward to the 
goal now while I can and be sure of it. This one and all may do. 



THE WANDERER. 

A babe within his cradle lay, 
New molden, beating- form of clay, 
Launched forth into the light of day ; 
Primordial mite of protoplasm, 
From time and space to bridge their chasm, 
Unite life's strands of chromatasm. 1* 

In him can trace the proud descent 

Of all the races Occident; 

Angle, Teuton, Gaul and Celt, 

Roman, Greek and Aryan, 

Ham and Shem to root Caucasian, 

Whence Adam and Eve left the branch Turanian. 

All history's tale in him concrete, 
The tangled skein is full complete, 
Impressed in nuclear fibres deep ; 
Nature's microgenetic scroll, 
Her record fixed in roll on roll, 
Of graphic film, embryonic soul. 

*1. For the information of those who have not had time or oppor- 
tunity to investigate for themselves the facts of modern biology, a 
short explanation of the composite parts and qualities of cells, and 
especially of reproductive or germ cells, is necessary, to aid them to 
an understanding of this poem. 

Nearly everyone now knows that the single protoplasmic cell is at 
the basis of all organic life, whether simple or complex. It is also 
generally known that it divides repeatedly in the very lowest orders 
to reproduce separate and distinct individual organisms and in the 
higher to reproduce and form the complex body, which also thus 
becomes eventually a separate and distnict individual of a certain fixed 
class or type. 

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From each united ancestral strand, 
That backwards through the ages grand, 
The message upward bore to man; 
Through countless variant, vagrant roads, 
The stream has ebbed ; the stream has flowed ; 
Each errant branch some truth bestowed. 

No epoch past, no single stage, 

But marked mistakes on nature's page, 

To warn and guide from error's wage. 

Conditioned by environment, 

Each era's form obedient, 

Arose to heights predominent. 

But as this pregnant whirling sphere, 
This vital throbbing mother, dear, 
Rides on towards fruition clear, 
Her every changing form and feature, 
Must ever choose some fitting creature, 
To serve as heir primogeniture. 

It is further known that all cells are organic, in that they have a 
central nucleus, surrounded by an outer body; also that they show 
powers of discrimination in the ingestion, digestion and assimilation 
of food and, even in the simplest forms, some motile power. 

What is not so generally known is the well-ordered unity that 
marks the simplest and the most complex cell life, and the intimate 
knowledge which science has acquired of certain organic facts of great 
human interest. These we will try to summarize as briefly as pos- 
sible: 

Within the nucleus there appears under miscroscopic examina- 
tion two specialized substances, one of which can be readily stained 
or which reacts to and readily absorbs coloring matter, while the 
other remains practically unaffected. They bear a relationship to one 
another somewhat like that of a boat afloat in water, an object and its 
medium of existence, in this case a sensitive object. This substance 
is called chromatin and its medium achromatin. 

Now in the process of growth of the cell, the internuclear sub- 
stances seem to have little or no interest, but when the cell has 
reached maturity, the chromatin which has been variously described 
as a ball, skein or network of somewhat indefinite formation, begins 
to unwind and then to separate into a certain number of separate 
rods called chromosomes. These proceed to allign themselves abreast 
and then to be pulled apart at what we are compelled to believe is the 
exact median line, so that each hemisphere of the nucleus contains 
exactly one half of each rod. After this the walls of the cell close in 
on the nucleus and the whole divides bearing with each daughter cell 
a corresponding half of the internuclear substance and of the chromo- 
somes. 

The number of cromosomes involved in the process in every distinct 
order of life is invariable which fact is stated by Thomson in "The 
Wonder of Life" pp. 380 as follows: "In each cell in the body of an 
organism there is normally a nucleus or kernal, and within the nucleus 
a definite number of readily stainable rods, or loops, or granules 

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Alone could reach such high gradation, 
The units wisest in creation, 
In experience gained through variation, 
By an ever lengthening servitude, 
Of patient, joyous parenthood, 
Obedient to love, the unselfish good. 

Whence cells in families congregated, 

To special functions dedicated, 

For mutual service federated. 

Reactive to primal law commutable, 

Conferred through life and death transmutable, 

To perfect justice attributable. 

Until at last in form resplendent, 

The final fruit and seed ascendent, 

Evolved to heritage transcendent. 

In which complete elaborated, 

True embryo of hope awaited, 

The touch Almighty, self-conscous freighted. 

Since first with eyes upturned to heaven, 
In thought conceived therein the question, 
That spurred him up and into action ; 
No backward glance to paradise, 
Could serve his footsteps to entice, 
Until should win his vision's heights. 

called chromosomes. Each kind of living creature has a particular 
number, thus there are twenty-four in man, mouse and lily, sixteen in 
ox, guinea pig and onion, twelve in the grasshopper, two in one of the 
threaworms and so on. There is no doubt that these chromosomes 
are very important, and most biologists regard them as the bearers of 
hereditary qualities. It is quite safe to say that the chromosomes 
along with the other germinal constituents, stand in some definite 
casual relation to the adult characters. Now the remarkable fact is 
that, while the immature germ (or reproductive) cells have the same 
number of chromosomes as the body cells of the species under con- 
sideration, which he designates as (N),the mature germ cells have only 
one half that number (the other half having been gotten rid of by a 
very beautiful and wonderfully complicated process) producing a cell 

N 
with its hereditary qualities divided, which he formulates as — By 

certain circumstances, equally wonderfully and variantly regulated, 
to mature germ or reproductive cells are brought together and con- 
jugate, a male and female cell, each bearing half of the parents 

hereditory qualities from which union of —■ "f" — = N; a new com- 
plete cell capable of dividing and subdividing itself and building up a 
new body the counterpart of its parents, is created. 

I have taken the liberty of varying somewhat the phraseology of 
the authority quoted in order to better adapt it to my subject matter. 

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In the currents of life flowing free day by day ; 

In the depths of pure soul that by night lit his way ; 

In the order and purpose that the universe sway ; 

Saw Jehovah, on high, upon his white throne, 

The God of Command, He, whose will must be done, 

E'er the dreams of His prohets upon earth could be won. 

Thus first knew his weakness, his need, and dependence ; 

To Nature's God from his knees cried out for true guidance; 

Sent upward burnt incense to appease the Just Vengeance ; 

Then into man's soul, full awakened at last, 

New currents divinely inspiring passed, 

With the spiritual leaven of intelligence fast. 

Thence to trace from crude beginning, 

On and up time's pathway winning, 

The growing webs of conscience spinning; 

All the tongues through history coined, 

Had failed, though for this end purloined, 

Till intelligence and love in Christ were joined. 

In Him, God's prototype of truth, 
The earth at last gave certain proof, 
That her life should yet bear perfect fruit. 
When mind in men should truly learn, 
Reaction to Christ's immortal sperm, 
Which once conceived must eternal burn. 

But ever since the tasted fruit 
Of knowledge gained its first recruit, 
A soldier bound to its pursuit ; 
Slaves had been to false ambition, 
Lost their past of sweet submission, 
Peace and content in Nature's Eden. 

Within whose sylvan glades and dells, 

In bliss of ignorance still dwells, 

A myriad genetic mental cells : 

Led on by rhythm of pure sensation, 

Fast to the threshold of aspiration, 

The ladder ascending to inspiration. 

This subject will bear following up, and those desiring to do so 
cannot do better than to study the book above referred to; Bergson's 
Problems of Life and Reproduction and, for a more elementary study, 
"Salesby's Organic Evolution" can be recommended, but the student 
should not form definite opinions on these subjects until they have 
followed them to considerable length. A book which is well qualified 
to assist in this however is "Fiske's Through Nature to God." 

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Whence life's processes evolutionary, 
By ideal conception rudimentary, 
Beget new relation supplementary. 
Where love by contact with its essence, 
Perceives true reason for its presence, 
Beyond immediate state and influence. 

That mind and matter from state zymotic, *2 
Must be wrought into unison by action zygotic, 
Perfect justice enacted for each progress chronotic. 
For on experience is founded this primal precept, 
That existence is bounded by cause and effect, 
Through genesis evolved from Ideal Concept. 

For what are the facts of existence but these, 

Through the ages compounded into realities, 

Obeying the precepts true experience decrees. 

Then consider the meaning, the state and relation, 

That man and his projects thus bear to creation, 

How each thought, word and deed must find justification. 

So what is God, if not the Infiinte Ideal, 

Whose virgin conception first started the wheel 

Of Love's Holy Spirit which makes the universe feel? 

And what is His Son but His ideal reflection, 

Attained and made manifest by the virgin conception, *3 

In a sublime human soul in the state of perfection? 

But mind, what is it, but experience supernal, 

That acts and reacts through divine will eternal, 

On the facts of existence found in matter external? 

And nature's laws and her precepts but experience concrete, 

Spiritual units perfected dealing justice complete, 

Swords of truth that arm love for ignorant evil's defeat? 

And what is man but the end filament, 
Of Almighty Creation, in him intelligent, 
Seeking perfect expression but still discontent? 
And what is his babe but the clay sentized, 
To react the precepts in him harmonized 
By a human conception of love realized 



2. Zymotic is the fermentative or chaotic state. 
Zygotic is the germinative or organized state. 

Progress chronotic, chronological progress, in order of time. 

3. Virgin conception, a sinless conception, immaculate and in- 
nocent, dedicated and consecrated to the ideal, whether it be a physical 
or mental conception. 

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Happy the babe in whose cells unite, 
Alpha and beta coils of love shining bright, *4 
With renunciation's divine gamma light; 
Whose petals of sentience slowly unfolding, 
Shall be sown with wisdom's pure pollen golden, 
Fertile with the truth by the ages molden. 

Happy the child, whose acute observation, 
Is fed from love's fountain of self-abnegation, 
With leaven to heighten each nascent sensation ; 
Tenderly exposing to each sensitized plate, 
The pictures and precepts true experience dictate, 
To nourish and strengthen and in life imitate. 

Happy is he, if the days of his youth, 

Be guided by council and loving reproof, 

To a strong correlation of soul's warp and woof. 

Twice happy when manhood's knock on the door, 

Finds him fitted and ready and armed for the war, 

That shall prove his temper in life's battle roar. 

Into whose fibres of body and mind, 
True limits of use and abuse are defined, 
The chasm near which we are marching blind. 
From whose yawning depths of annihilation, 
We may hear the moan of past errant creation, 
If but keyed to react to the warning vibration. 

Happy is she, who when womanhood calls, 
Shall bravely face duty Whatever befalls, 
With knowledge and purpose enter life's halls. 
Knowing her power and right of election, 
Nor waver nor falter in making selection, 
Not counterfeit gold, but true virile perfection. 

Thrice happy are they whose coordinate strands, *5 
Shall meet thus and join in love's righteous demands, 
Forging true links in Ideal Conception Grand. 
Whose union shall thought, word nor deed desecrate, 
In communion sublime life to life dedicate, 
To Almighty Creation soul to soul consecrate. 

*4. These metaphors are derived from the known qualities of the 
three component emanations from the metal "radium." The alpha and 
beta rays representing destructive and constructive extremes, while 
the intermediate gamma rays appear to be a combination of the two 
and to be truly creative, as is evidenced by the curative qualities of 
these latter when the two former are filtered out. 

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Happy the age and happy the nation, 

Whose life blood is fluxed in such generation, 

In whose glory the earth shall find consummation ; 

When all her forces of life idealized, 

Shall find in her service their hopes realized, 

Truth's Almighty perception in them organized. 

Thus each from all blindness and morbidness flee, 

With a song on our lips whate'er our burdens may be, 

Face the future with the courage of reality ; 

That knows feels and act in complete correspondence, 

With every impulse for good whose contact is the evidence, 

Of that fulness of love that is proof of obedience. 

That carries no load through life's portals of time, 
Of experience unworthy of God's Ideal Divine, 
Where rejection is death from eternity sublime. 
But a soul overflowing with Christ's burden of love, 
That no more knows the shadow of God's crucified dove, 
But felicity complete in His Unity above. 



*5. The writer would not wish to be misunderstood as favoring 
any idealistic experiments in sexual relationships. The system of 
strict monogamy, publically consecrated by appropriate religious 
ceremonial, and privately consecrated in the hearts of the interested 
parties with an intelligent comprehension of life's responsibilities 
before and after entering the marital state, will some day relieve the 
race from the sins of misconduct, divorce and prevent people from 
hurriedly entering upon a relationship affecting not themselves alone 
but all of us. If not some proper means will become necessary to curb 
present unbridaled license. And if we do not do this voluntarily, 
Nature will, in her usual painful way, and then see that you not rebel 
against your merited correction. 



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GOD'S WORKSHOP. 

Dedicated to a dear, little friend, who died, and whose loved ones 
could not understand. 

Love one morning at break of day, 

Went into her garden to ramble and play ; 

When down at her feet an angel fell. 

That had lost his way and had almost reached hell. 

His wings were broken ; his sight nigh gone ; 

His heart scarce beat; he was weary and worn; 

A long, long night he had striven through, 

Upheld by a memory that he hardly knew ; 

That if he only would ceaselessly hope and pray, 

God's strength would sustain him till the new dawn of day 

Should show him the garden of hope's delight, 

Where fallen angels find a welcome bright; 

Where tender hands would lift him up ; 

Bind up his wounds ; bid him freely to sup 

From hope's living fountains of faith and love, 

Till once again strong for his journey above. 

But all the doctors and nurses there 

Were but partly cured patients of love's tender care; 

And most of the doctors were jealous and vain, 

By their blindness and pride, hope had all but slain; 

While the nurses were thoughtless, lazy or mad; 

Weak, rough and nigh worthless, but none were quite bad. 

So love was kept busy from morning to night 

Dealing orders and justice to left and to right; 

Instructing her children, both the new and the old, 

With faith at her side to uplift and uphold. 

Now love you can feel, taste, see, hear and smell, 

But faith is a spirit and an ideal as well. 

Her children unheeding, love's gifts misused, 

For her lessons and justice Holy Spirit accused. 

While the doctors had seized an empty shadow of faith, 

And themselves ordained masters to judge and to hate. 

But sometimes a faint glimmer of truths bright sheen 

Was the joyous reward by love's labors seen; 

And this was all that her true heart asked, 

For times without number, yes for times and a half. *1 

Till at last, one bright morning, a pure light gleamed, 

Out from the eyes of an earth-born streamed. 

And many that were sick and thoughtless and mad, 

Yes, even some that were weak, worthless and nigh bad; 

By the touch of His hand were cured and made clean, 

And followed and worshipped Truth's bright, shining gleam, 

Which the doctor's all saw with jealous envy and hate, 

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And sought for some manner in safety to take. 

Then hate shrewdly whispered, "Ask Him for a proof of His 

might"; 
For well hate knew this was like asking white 
To be false to its purity and paint itself black ; 
Or Truth to put His parents, love and faith, on the rack. 
So all that He answered was ; "Thy will be done, 
If this cup I must drink that man's victory be won". 
So they took Him and raised Him high on the cross, 
Blindly thinking to thus prove the "Son of Man" false ; 
When this was the one thing needful to prove 
To His brethren beloved how every perfect thing moves ; 
To show them the road, the way and the law, 
We must fearlessly tread, all who upward would draw 
Our brothers and sisters, to lighten the dread 
That has darkened the portal twixt the living and dead ; 
A beacon whose gleam would shine down the ages, 
Love and faith's payment full in eternity's wages ; 
Bridging death's chasm with the Christ Light of Truth ; 
When humanity all from the days of their youth 
Shall give heed and attend to His sacred example ; 
Then all nations and races will find government ample 
In the book of His law, with its truth full revealed 
In the states of existence in God's handiwork concealed. 

*1. See Daniel 12:7, which interpreted means, times without num- 
ber, yes, for times and a half, that is for an eternity of patience and 
even for eternity and half beyond, which seems to be the ultimate 
expression of this divine quality. 

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God is The Infinite Ideal, the All-Environing Soul, the 

Supreme Intelligence and Master Mind of Supernal 

Experience, Seeking Perfect Finite Expression 

In the Creation of a Continuous Cosmos of Order and Purpose, 
of Beauty, Harmony, Sympathy, and Unselfishness, 

By The Synthesis of Love. 

Out of a Discontinuous Chaos of Disorder and Lack of 

Purpose, of Discord, Ugliness, Jealousy and Egotism, 

in the Antithesis of Hate. 

The Universe is God's Workshop. 

Faith is His Vision and Design. 

Hope is His Philosophy and Religion . 

The Five Senses are His Fingers, His Delicately Adjusted 
Tools. 

The Faculties are The Strings of the Finite Soul upon which 
He Plays. 

Sensations are His Touch 

Aspiration is His Incoherent Desire. 

Emotion is His Language. 

Inspiration is His Voice. 

The States of Existence are His Accomplishments. 

Nature is His Home. 

Nature's Laws are His Perfected, Regnant Children. 

His Son is His Ideal Reflection, 

A Perfect Intellectual Personality and Spiritual Entity, 
In whom Love and Intelligence are Reunited and Com- 
pletely Reactive, 
Expressing The Father's Will and Defining His Nature 

in Perfect Terms, 
A Regnant Spiritual Unit governing the Destinies of 
Humanity. 

Truth is God's Experience. 

Knowledge is God's Self-Revelation to a World over which 
His Son is becoming increasingly Regnant, through God's 
Clearing House of Death, wherein Acceptable Experience 
enters into Eternal Felicity as an integral part of God's 
Truth and Unity, while rejected experience is consigned to 
its Just Place in the relative scale of Facts and States 
Existent to work out its Justification. 

God's Ultimate Purpose is the Creation of Finite Children 
worthy of Inheriting All-Knowledge and of being 
Entrusted with All-Truth and Power. 



